finds that as both producer and
lover, he is unable to communi-
cate his ideas to the woman he
nevertheless can’t live without.
Like their previous collabora-
tion, 2013’s Ida, Pawlikowski
and his cinematographer Łukasz
Żal shoot in black and white in
academy ratio, creating some
truly stunning images, the nar-
row frame reflecting the claustro-
phobia of some of the scenarios
the film’s protagonists find them-
selves trapped in. With so much
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time devoted to the various mu-
sical performances Wiktor and
Zula engage in, Cold War might
qualify as a musical by some
viewers’ metrics. The tunes are
so catchy and fresh to audiences
outside Pawlikowski’s homeland,
that it could do for Polish folk
tunes what the Coen Brothers’ O
Brother Where Art Thou? did for
Appalachian bluegrass.
Kulig is an actress I’ve seen in
many a supporting role in various
Polish and French films, includ-
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